Track Descriptions

Track 1: Digital Media

A broad category of tools, resources, and services under the heading of digital media is changing the face of instruction and offering new potential for the campus community. Whether you’re integrating social media in instruction, leveraging open education resources (OERs), exploring MOOCs, or documenting real-world knowledge in an ePortfolio, you are engaging in one of many new education practices enabled by digital media. Presenters in this track will explore all types of digital media in the education environment. Breakout sessions in this track include:

T03 - Who Badges the Badgemen? Badging in Higher Education

T08 - Innovation and Collaboration Using Video in the Learning Environment

T13 - Transition to the Future: The eTextbook Shift

W18 - Transforming Learning Through the Mindful Use of Digital Multi-Media and Technology

W20 - Community College eText Initiative

W23 - Social Media for Teaching & Learning

W25 - Putting the "International" in a Collaborative Marketing Class

W32 - Flipping the Classroom

W33 - The eCompanion Experience: A Formative Assessment

TH36 - Thinking Outside of the Classroom: Using Video Conferencing for Distance Learning and Collaboration

Track 2: Mobile Learning

Mobile devices are coming to campus, whether through formalized mobile projects and programs or as informal student communications choices. Along with these devices come high expectations for mobile learning applications and mobile services on campus. Presenters in this track will explore a range of relevant mobile applications and services on campus and consider trends and implications as mobile finds its place in the business of education. Breakout sessions in this track include:

T04 - We Needed an App for Us

T09 - When Mobile Learners are the Teachers: Creating the University of Michigan Mobile Users Group

T14 - iPads in the Classroom: Resources and Scaffolding

W19 - Mobile Teaching: Conducting Class while Roaming the Room ...or the World

W24 - Creating Active Learning Objects with the iPad

W34 - Ripple: An Open Source Personal Response System to Add Enhanced Interactivity through a Mobile Web Application

TH42 - Using iPads to Promote Learning, Psychomotor Skill Development and Experiential Learning

Track 3: Technology Infrastructure

Campus IT organizations today must effectively manage large-scale institutional technology programs and enterprise implementations. The institutional technology infrastructure is, in a sense, defining the institution now even more than brick-and-mortar infrastructure used to. This track gives attendees an opportunity to examine the technology infrastructure that’s now helping shape our institutions. Breakout sessions in this track include:

TH39 - Harnessing the Power of a Statewide High-Speed Fiber Optic Broadband Network

Track 4: IT Leadership and Institutional Change

With today’s rapidly evolving technologies, institutional pressures for accountability, and an extremely tough economy, higher education IT leaders are facing their most challenging operational environment to date. But many IT organizations are poised to increase their effectiveness and influence on campus as they develop new IT/academic partnerships and find opportunities to lead institutional change. Breakout sessions in this track include:

Track 5: Industry Directions

Emerging technology applications and new product feature sets are topics for which attendees especially appreciate vendor expertise. This track allows for a wide variety of technology areas while providing the product-specific, in-depth demonstrations and on-the-spot Q&A that product managers and industry representatives offer. Sessions in this track include:

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Opening Keynote

Gonick is recognized as a leader in innovative networking initiatives that impact education and community. In 2010, he and his colleagues at Case Western Reserve launched the nation’s first gigabit fiber-to-the-home research program called the Case Connection Zone. In 2011, Government Technology awarded Gonick one of their “Top 25 Doers, Dreamers & Drivers in Public-Sector Innovation.” In the same year Crain’s Business Cleveland named him one of its “10 Difference Makers” in Northeast Ohio and Broadband Properties honored him with their Cornerstone Award for “using fiber to build an inclusive society and empower individuals.” Read more...